Aego-M from Acoustic Energy. £99. The tiny satellites can go almost
anywhere, and the sub is modest-sized and could be placed behind a
curtain or a couch. Sounds excellent at low volumes and can also play
quite loudly without breaking up. High tech design with heavy metal
alloy cabinets for th
Eric Seaberg;205578 Wrote:
>
> Remember that sound travels typically at 1100 feet/second, and the
> amount of phase shift from two summed mics being 30+ feet apart on the
> same instrument will NEVER approach a complete 180-degree phase shift.
You've lost me there. Half a wavelength in feet is
Eric Seaberg wrote:
> I've been in the recording business for 36 years and have worked in some
> of the most prestigious facilities in the World... what you're talking
> about isn't really 'phase' as much as it is 'time-alignment'.
Yes. Even though every mic pre and/or console has a Phase button
I've been in the recording business for 36 years and have worked in some
of the most prestigious facilities in the World... what you're talking
about isn't really 'phase' as much as it is 'time-alignment'.
The 'headphone' out-of-phase issue above really has to do with the
difference between hea
While these things are definitely true and would be responsible for a
roll-off on both ends of the spectrum, the word "shredded" sounds worse
than just ~320 kbps MP3/AAC/Ogg/WMA/ATRAC/etc. lossy (by nature)
artifacts, no? It really sounds like <192 kbps MP3/WMA or XM/Sirus-like
~56 kbps AAC+/PAC,
Many years ago, when I was working as an engineer at WBAA, Purdue
University, the local telephone company put in a new switch with
newfangled line frames with a polarity reverse in the frame. The
installers, who had been reversing the "outside" side of the frame for
years so the "inside" would be
James_B;20 Wrote:
> I am sure powered monitors are a great route and have heard a lot of
> good things about the audio engines. I was however looking for
> something a little smaller that could be slightly more hidden away -
> sorry i should have been more specific - any ideas?
The problem w
I am sure powered monitors are a great route and have heard a lot of
good things about the audio engines. I was however looking for
something a little smaller that could be slightly more hidden away -
sorry i should have been more specific - any ideas?
--
James_B
---
James_B;205524 Wrote:
> Are there any suggestions out there for discrete speaker systems
> suitable for small rooms (say ten square metres)? Ideally any solution
> would also sound great at relatively low volumes.. and lets say there
> is a 500 pound budget but less is definitely more..
>
> Many
opaqueice;205531 Wrote:
> This is a question for anyone with any experience with audio recording.
>
> I've been thinking about the question of the audibility of polarity
> inversion (or absolute phase as it's sometimes called - let's define it
> as the effect of reversing the leads on each of yo
That makes a lot of sense - if you've ever seen a real time frequency
analysis of an MP3, it's very clear that the highs are abruptly chopped
off unless the amplitude at a given frequency is very high.
--
AndyC_772
AndyC_7
I don't know all the answers to your questions but I get what your
getting at. We had a similar thread about phase on multi channel
playback on a meridian system where one user calibrated his system with
all the same make amps and speakers and found his system sounded
"better" (using the built in
This is a question for anyone with any experience with audio recording.
I've been thinking about the question of the audibility of polarity
inversion (or absolute phase as it's sometimes called - let's define it
as the effect of reversing the leads on each of your speakers). I know
this can be a
Are there any suggestions out there for discrete speaker systems
suitable for small rooms (say ten square metres)? Ideally any solution
would also sound great at relatively low volumes.. and lets say there
is a 500 pound budget but less is definitely more..
Many thanks
--
James_B
-
Phil Leigh;205507 Wrote:
>
> It's probably worth pondering how a planar diaphragm microphone is ever
> supposed to capture the correct phase in the first place, even in the
> Bass drum example, since when the drum head moves away from the beater
> the diaphragm moves in towards the mic and it wi
I've been navigating my way through the myriad number of power supply
upgrades for the SB. Unforunately, it looks like if there's anything
consistent about the makes and models used by members of the forum,
it's their inconsistency.
>From what I've gleaned -- based the voltage, amperage and conn
haunyack;205346 Wrote:
> 'scuse the rookie question, but I'm not sure what this term means.
>
> I've noticed that sometimes the higher notes (frequencies)? sound just
> a bit ...broken on my system.
> For the lack of proper terminology, I would say that sometimes the high
> notes sound "shredded
I just want to add, although lossy isn't ideal, I wouldn't write off all
of it. While high bitrate LAME MP3, several encoder AAC or Ogg Vorbis
files, etc. won't always have the extension of lossless/uncompressed
files, the distortion of shred-like highs usually is not there by any
means at lea
Oh - and yes both cartridges and speakers/headphones (all types -
although open panel electrostatics are better in this respect than the
rest) distort asymmetrically - most other stuff doesn't, unless faulty.
--
Phil Leigh
Opaqueice,
I basically agree. I don't believe I said that it was impossible to
hear phase 180 degree inversion differences - it's quite easy with a
sine wave in a room...but all music - even a Bass drum - is (thank
goodness) asymmetric and not very much like a sine wave, as you point
out.
I also
Phil Leigh;205485 Wrote:
> I'm reasonably sure your amp and speakers are fine.
> Try some lossless stuff (or just a CD if you can) and see if the
> "shredding" goes away...
>
> If you can actually hear anything over 15k then you are doing well -
> very well. I'd guess this "shredding" is more li
S-Man;205455 Wrote:
>
> I think some or you are being unfair on the TNT reviewer...
> I have just had a good lsiten to V15 versus V81 and can hear a
> noticeable difference (although the different volume profiles used
> makes a direct comparison rather tricky). HOWEVER IMHO the difference
> is s
pugwonk;205481 Wrote:
> I'm sorry - terribly remiss of me not to report back. Yes I did, and I
> have to say they sound fantastic. My whole living room seems filled
> with sound, which is great. Many thanks to everyone who replied on the
> thread - I'm sure this was the right thing to do and I re
S-Man;205455 Wrote:
> I have owned an SB+ for about 3 months and would say that it provides a
> huge improvement in sound quality over a standard SB3. I would also add
> that a good linear power supply with an othewise standard SB3 gives
> about half as much improvement as the SB+. Whether or not
I'm reasonably sure your amp and speakers are fine.
Try some lossless stuff (or just a CD if you can) and see if the
"shredding" goes away...
If you can actually hear anything over 15k then you are doing well -
very well. I'd guess this "shredding" is more likely to be in the
9-12Khz range...?
swhite58;205354 Wrote:
> So, did you get the Audioengines up and running? How do they sound?
I'm sorry - terribly remiss of me not to report back. Yes I did, and I
have to say they sound fantastic. My whole living room seems filled
with sound, which is great. Many thanks to everyone who replie
This will be in a totally different room. I just bought a 2BR condo.
The multi-channel set up will be in the living room. This new setup
will go in the 2nd BR which will be used a listening room / office /
guest room.
BTW - I just spotted an Apogee mini-DAC on Audiogon for $600. I am
very tem
Anne;205401 Wrote:
> Without making anyone nervous, the analog out of SB3 is pretty good.
> I had a hard time hearing differences between it and my Philips dvd
> 963SA with clock upgrade, via electrostatic headphones.
> Funny, via the speakers, switching back and forth via the remote, it
> was a
S-Man;205455 Wrote:
> I guess I'll get lots of replies stating it's not possible to
> distinguish absolute phase.
I don't think people will dispute that one can hear the change in
phase. I'd dispute sole act of doing it - what's the point? Of course,
your personal preference and liking aren't fo
I have owned an SB+ for about 3 months and would say that it provides a
huge improvement in sound quality over a standard SB3. I would also add
that a good linear power supply with an othewise standard SB3 gives
about half as much improvement as the SB+. Whether or not the extra 50%
in sound quali
haunyack wrote:
> The speakers are fairly high end Vandersteen 3A Signature, which are
Yes, nice
> Pat - after doing some side by side's with tracks flac/wma(192) I can
> say that the distortion appears to be on the wma tracks only.
>
> Phil - do you suppose that my old B&K amp may be showing si
patherb2;205233 Wrote:
> Yes, this will be a completely separate setup.
ok - but still not clear if you are going to a separate location.
If your motivation is, as you say, to get your 2-ch signal away from a
multichannel amp then you can always have both driving the same front
speakers.
Jus
gw43 - thanks for the explanation.
The speakers are fairly high end Vandersteen 3A Signature, which are
the best I've owned and are remarkably pleasant listening.
The listed freq. response is - 30Hz to 22kHz + or - 1.2dB by FFT step
function.
I'm sure thay are designed to handle the tones that see
IF you mean lossy compression then I can hear all sorts of problems with
cymbals even at 320Mbps - I'm not sure I'd say it sounds "shredded" -
rather somewhat "unreal" or "artificial" - hard to explain.
It doesn't happen on every record. I also think it depends on whether
or not the cymbals (and
haunyack wrote:
> 'scuse the rookie question, but I'm not sure what this term means.
>
> I've noticed that sometimes the higher notes (frequencies)? sound just
> a bit ...broken on my system.
> For the lack of proper terminology, I would say that sometimes the high
> notes sound "shredded".
> It s
inguz;205330 Wrote:
> Re: REQW: if you didn't get prompted for which channel to use when
> importing the PCM file, REQW was probably interpreting it as mono
> instead of stereo, which would explain the HF curve.
Not sure I understand this. Since I saved it as a 32bit stereo PCM
file, why would i
Without making anyone nervous, the analog out of SB3 is pretty good.
I had a hard time hearing differences between it and my Philips dvd
963SA with clock upgrade, via electrostatic headphones.
Funny, via the speakers, switching back and forth via the remote, it
was a bit easier, but there isnt muc
Sorry, I meant bk-3-spline. See here:
http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/doc/drc.html#htoc41
Correct, the flatness control is "linear phase".
--
inguz
inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139
Vie
inguz;205330 Wrote:
> Re: REQW: if you didn't get prompted for
> The "flatness" control works roughly like this:
>
So If I understand correctly the flatness control does effect the
frequency response but does not affect the other room corrections like
echo or phase corrections?
Ronald.
--
t
inguz;205316 Wrote:
>
> tingtong5: yes, this looks absolutely normal. The best startingpoint
> for a target file is usually the bk-5-spline rather than flat, but
> anyway try listening with "flatness" values around 3 to 5, see if this
> brings back some of the frequency balance you're used to.
Mark Lanctot;204983 Wrote:
> Note, as Anne mentions, that this is not only due to DAC differences but
> also how receivers handle analog signals (often very poorly), see
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AVReceivers
Quite right - so I checked. The A1 does apparently have a true analogue
pa
haunyack;205346 Wrote:
> 'scuse the rookie question, but I'm not sure what this term means.
>
>
>
> .
"Roll Off" typically refers to the fact that at the extremes of
frequencies, the volume coming from the speakers will gradually reduce.
So, if a speaker is quoted as being "50Hz - 20kHz, +/-3
42 matches
Mail list logo
